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very own Junior Jim Carrey, and Dexter, my Teen Queen. Every day I check out their faces, looking for signs of change. I look at their perfect noses, their radiant smiles, their thick hair. I scan Dexter’s wide-set eyes and Duke’s gorgeous cleft chin. Do they have to grow up? Why am I so fortunate? How did these two choices thrust me out of a life of isolation into a kind of family-of-man scenario, complete with an extended family, new friends, and much needed ordinary activities? How is it possible I became one of those swim-meet moms, driving Duke to Santa Clarita at seven A.M., only to find myself standing in the rain watching Dexter swim the 400 free at five P.M.? Wish you could have been there. Wish you could have seen Duke and Dexter stretch their perfect bodies and dive into that cold water. Wish you could have come to Hawaii too. That would have been fun. You could have ordered pineapple snow cones under the waterfall. You could have watched them fly down the water slide, laughing all the way. You could have joined us on the boat ride from hell with the Iraqi war-vet tour guides tossing us up and down at sixty miles an hour in ten-foot swells.

One more thing, Mom. How does it all so soon become then? I guess there’s a consolation. It’s weird, but I think you’ll understand. As I’ve written our memoir—your words with my words—sometimes I feel like it’s Again without the Then. Do you understand what I’m saying? Can you hear me? I’m saying I’m with you again. THEN. AGAIN. Then again, Mom. Then again.

To my City of Women:

Stephanie Heaton, Sandra Shadic, Lindsay Dwelley.

Plus two men: David Ebershoff and Bill Clegg.

They know why.

IN MEMORY OF

DR. LEO RANGELL. ROBERT SHAPAZIAN. MICHAEL BALOG. LARRY SULTAN. MAURY CHAYKIN. MARTHA CARR. MIKE CARR. RED. ALAN BUCHSBAUM. MAHALA HOIEN. NANCY SHORT. DAVID MCCLOUD. GEORGE. AND EDDIE. ROY KEATON. FRANK ZIMMERMAN. DR. FELICIA LANDAU. SANDY MEISNER. AND SADIE. DOMINO. JOSIE. WHITEY. WALTER MATTHAU. AUDREY HEPBURN. RICHARD BURTON. GALE STORM. BILL HEATON. INEZ ROBBINS. MAUREEN STAPLETON. GRACE JOHANSEN. HARRY COHEN. JANET FRANK. JILL CLAYBURGH. FREDDIE FIELDS. MARLON BRANDO. VINCENT CANBY. ROSE COHEN. GEORGE BARBER. GREGORY PECK. ORPHA AND WESLEY THEISEN. JACK SHAWN. GERALDINE PAGE. CHESTER HALL. WILLIAM EVERSON. MRS. CLARK. KERRY BASTENDORF. BILL BASTENDORF. RICHARD BROOKS. MARY ALICE HALL. TOM O’HORGAN. BEULAH KEATON. LEMUEL W. KEATON JR. ANNA KEATON. JACK N. HALL. DOROTHY DEANNE KEATON HALL.

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PHOTOGRAPHY and ARTWORK

CAPTIONS and CREDITS

Opening photo spread © Annie Leibovitz, courtesy of the artist

First Color Insert

1.1 Dorothy Hall’s journals. PHOTO: NICK REID

1.2 Scrapbook of Diane Keaton, by Dorothy Hall. PHOTO: NICK REID

1.3 Page from Diane Keaton’s scrapbook, by Dorothy Hall. PHOTO: NICK REID

1.4 Interiors of Dorothy’s journals. PHOTO: NICK REID

1.5 Father and Daughters, collage by Dorothy Hall. PHOTO: NICK REID

1.6 Spines of Dorothy’s journals. PHOTO: NICK REID

Black-and-White Insert

2.1 Diane as a child. PHOTO: DOROTHY HALL

2.2 Jack Hall.

2.3 Dorothy Hall and Diane as a baby.

2.4 Randy Hall. PHOTO: DOROTHY HALL

2.5 Robin (standing) and Dorrie Hall. PHOTO: DOROTHY HALL

2.6 Diane and Woody Allen. PHOTO: DOROTHY HALL

2.7 Diane as a young adult. PHOTO: FREDERIC OHRINGER

2.8 Diane close-up. PHOTO: SMP/GLOBE PHOTOS, INC.

2.9 Diane in a suit. PHOTO: © GARY LEWIS/CAMERAPRESS/ RETNA LTD, USA